Air America has suspended host Randi Rhodes for offensive comments made about Democratic Presidential nomination candidate Hillary Clinton and former Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro. She referred to Clinton as a “Fucking Whore” and made the comment that Ferraro was David Duke in drag.
She didn’t make these comments on the radio. She said them at an Air America event in San Francisco.
Was she drunk? Do a Google search for photos of Randi Rhodes and a good majority of them show her holding a drink of some kind. She has also been involved in some stuff off the air that would make a lot more sense if she was constantly blitzed. Things like calling Clinton a derogatory, sexist name. There was the time in 2007 when she had been drinking all day at a Irish pub in New York City and blacked out and hit her head. She initially informed Air America that she was mugged. It was then said by some liberal bloggers that she had been attacked by a right-wing hit squad. The whole thing was more then a little goofy. She was off the air for a few days because of it.
Listening to Randi Rhodes speak is a lot like listening to fingernails on the chalkboard. She speaks with a heavy Brooklyn accent that seems to be, well, amplified for effect. It’s so bad it sounds fake.
She also often has her facts completely wrong. I once heard her refer to the Iran-Contra scandal as though the hostages involved were the 52 American hostages taken in 1979 when the Shah of Iran was overthrown and the American Embassy seized. It’s that type of gross factual inaccuracy you would expect to hear on Sean Hannity.
My hope is that the suspension turns out to be permanent. In the world of talk radio, suspensions usually are.
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I’m not sure how this all figures into this, but, my god, she has gigantic ears for a woman.
They’re the size of satellite dishes. And not the new ones- I mean the old fashioned kind.
When I read the title, I thought you were going to predict an ex-post-facto confession of alcoholism from Randi, รก la Mel Gibson. We live in a world where, when you say something that gets a big enough reaction from enough angry people, the only place you can go to escape their wrath is rehab.
I think in the case of Randi, she may really have a problem with the booze. Most of them hide in rehab just to shield them for criticism, but I think in her case it might be true.
Do a Google search of her for photos and take a look at how many of them she is holding an adult beverage.
I remember listening to her first show back from the mugging incident. She tried to play it off as having low blood sugar by saying she hadn’t eaten all day. Well what was she doing in the pub? I assume she was drinking.